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March 05, 2025
Nice Churchy Patriarchy is most definitely a thing
The following book recently arrived in the mail: Author Liz Cooledge Jenkins is a writer,...
February 2025
February 27, 2025
Uncovering My Family’s Faith History
It's story time, kids! Several years ago, my brother spit into a bottle and sent...
February 24, 2025
Love your enemies? I don’t think so.
There’s a tradition, or I suppose I should call it a rule in my family:...
February 13, 2025
Finding our way home in an age of anxiety
I recently won the following book from Englewood Review of Books: Englewood, if you don't...
February 04, 2025
Women Talking: You Know Something’s Gonna Go Down
I found the following book in my neighborhood's free little library a couple of months...
January 2025
January 27, 2025
How Bishop Budde helped us look for the Light
On Tuesday night, I took up one end of the couch, while my younger son...
January 16, 2025
Whistling in the Dark, alongside the born-agains
I finally read a book that had been sitting on my shelf for a while:...
January 10, 2025
Composing a life, thread by thread
A friend recently passed along the following book: I think you'll like it, she said, and...
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December 17, 2024
Santa baby, a post-evangelical book, or two…
Christmas is going to be here before we know it. If you're anything like me,...
December 06, 2024
Look for Light, Even in the Darkness
Week before last, my boys and I stopped by the hardware store afterschool for a...
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November 29, 2024
Light and Darkness: They Dance Together in Advent
On Friday night, my boys and I gathered around the scratched and worn dining room...
November 22, 2024
Flung Wide Open: The Beauty of Welcoming Everyone
A couple of days ago, I left the house to take the dog for a...
November 15, 2024
Noticing the Hidden Things: Actions for Compassionate Living
Sometimes, our invitation is simply to notice. When I walk through the backyard garden, I...
November 08, 2024
What if Jesus is in the business of discomfort & challenge?
Less than forty-eight hours ago, I walked and stood and wound my way through a...
November 01, 2024
Death and life: What does it mean for us to see?
Sometimes we just want to see. Earlier this week, I woke up, same as always:...
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October 25, 2024
What holy anger means for the sake of wholeness & liberation
A singular image of anger often lives in my head. It’s an image that comes...
October 08, 2024
How does curiosity play a role in the life of faith?
What are we to do with the natural shoulds that often accompany life? You should...
October 03, 2024
The Blessing of the Doubter, In You and In Me
As I was reading a parenting book this last week, a statement about a particular...
October 01, 2024
Do you crave wholeness and truth? You’re human!
We all crave wholeness. We all crave truth. Yesterday, my family hit up the localist...
September 2024
September 24, 2024
What If God Is Not Only in the Peace but Also in the Pain?
I am reminded of a scene from 15, 20 years ago, about a singular story...
September 17, 2024
The Power of Dignity: A Reflection on Jesus’s Teachings
In our house, there is typically one rule I try and employ to my nine...
September 10, 2024
How Can We Live in Hope Amid Uncertainty?
Perhaps like some of you, in the fall, my weekends are filled with soccer. I’m...
September 03, 2024
How do we love our neighbor?
It’s fine to say you love your neighbor as yourself, but what does that actually...
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The Holy Act of Eating and Drinking: A Spiritual Perspective
Have you ever felt desperate for thirst? So hungry for food that you would have...
August 15, 2024
The Complex Legacy of Church Camp Experiences
Can I tell you a short story, dear reader? It's a story of remembering, a...
August 06, 2024
With wild desperation comes one thing: a wild kind of mercy
Have you ever felt so desperate for something, you’d do anything to make desperation go...
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July 30, 2024
God is here, in this place, with us
It’s that time of year again: it’s time to talk about tomatoes. A year ago,...
July 23, 2024
Even now, hope is still present in the darkest of spaces
It was just another Sunday by all outward accounts: I preached that morning in San...
July 16, 2024
What can we do to bring some hope to a dark world?
As often happens in the summer months, we had family in town this last week....
July 09, 2024
Hearing God’s Word: I got you, Beloved, & I’m proud of you
Last Saturday, I gathered with a few of my neighbors in the backyard. As often...
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